[Koha] [Koha-devel] Introducing "Mana" (central DB project)

[Kyle Hall]

Fantastic! I look forward to seeing what we can share with this!

Kyle

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 2:36 AM Hugo Agud <hagud at orex.es> wrote:

> Wonderful!!!
>
> 2016-07-11 23:20 GMT+02:00 Sebastian Hierl <s.hierl at aarome.org>:
>
>> Congratulations and looking forward!
>>
>> Sebastian
>> On Jul 10, 2016 9:26 AM, "Arslan Farooq" <arslanone at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Congratulations Paul, BibLibre, Morgane !
>> >
>> > This will be great :-)
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Paul Poulain <paul.poulain at biblibre.com
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > Some months ago I sent an email to koha-devel, to announce that
>> BibLibre
>> > > was planning to work on a new project, dedicated to sharing
>> informations
>> > > between Koha (
>> > > https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/SharingDatasBetweenKohas_rfc).
>> > >
>> > > I'm proud an happy to give you feedback about this project: things are
>> > > moving quickly & nicely.
>> > >
>> > >  * *Morgane*, our intern -alex_a being the tutor) is doing a great job
>> > > (you can congratulate her on #koha ;-) )
>> > >  * we've named this project "*Mana*". It's a Maori word (once again
>> :D),
>> > > easy to pronounce & write.
>> > > http://maoridictionary.co.nz/search?&keywords=mana : "*(verb)* to be
>> > > legal, effectual, binding, authoritative, valid." I'll ask for
>> > > mana.koha-community.org DNS entry soon !
>> > >  * as announced by Morgane, we're using the same framework as for HEA
>> for
>> > > the server side. The code is available on our git:
>> > > http://git.biblibre.com/biblibre/koha-mana (will be pushed later on
>> > > git.koha-community.org). The DB is here, some webservice are already
>> > here
>> > > & working.
>> > >  * The koha-side is being worked, below are some screen shots.
>> > >  * we changed some things compared to my initial RFC. Everything is on
>> > > trello, splitted into cards (
>> https://trello.com/b/BslL6i9p/mana-biblibre
>> > > trello not public, claire, the owner is not here today, we'll change
>> the
>> > > status in a day or 2.) Note that there can be some French on trello,
>> even
>> > > if Morgane avoid it.
>> > > We plan to have MANA working at the end of august, at least for
>> > > subscriptions (pattern & numbering) sharing. Maybe also for SQL
>> reports &
>> > > vendors.
>> > >
>> > > Some screen shots & features descriptions:
>> > >
>> > >  in subscription management, you can now *share* a subscription
>> pattern,
>> > > by sending it to Mana:
>> > >
>> > > When you click on "share", after validation, you get a *feedback*:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Anyone can then retrieve the numbering pattern & frequency calculation
>> > > when creating a subscription (work being done this week). After the
>> 1st
>> > > screen of subscription creation, Koha will automatically query mana
>> and
>> > > check if there is some data available:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > The librarian will then be able to see what is available and get it
>> > > locally in one click.
>> > > Every time a librarian "get it locally", a counter will be
>> incremented on
>> > > Mana. Thus, if more than 1 frequency/pattern is submitted for a given
>> > > title, the librarians should be able to see which one is "preferred"
>> by
>> > > other librarians.
>> > >
>> > > Additional features:
>> > >  * we will create a script that will help populate Mana from a CSV. We
>> > > will probably issue a RFF ("Request For File" ;-) ) later. Our idea is
>> > that
>> > > we want to launch Mana with many data already available.
>> > >  * comment. Any librarian will be able to add a comment to a shared
>> data,
>> > > as well as marking it as "obsolete".
>> > >  * a syspref will be added to deactivate Mana (will be ON by default)
>> > >
>> > > Feel free to ask for more informations, I would be happy to answer !
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner
>> > > BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les bibliothèques
>> > > BibLibre, Open Source software and services for libraries
>> > >
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